POWER OF 10 M O O Z
FROM MICRO TO MACROCOSMOS .
This is a trip at high speed, jumping distances by factor of 10. Start with 100 equivalent to 1 meter, and increasing sizes by factor of 10s ,or 101 (10 meters), 102 (10x10 = 100 meters, 103 (10x10x10 = 1.000 meters), 104 (10x10x10x10 = 10.000 meters), so on, until the limit of our inmagination in direction to the macrocosmos.
Later let’s return, a little faster, up to the point where we started and continue our trip in the opposite direction reducing distances of travel by factors of 10 into the microcosmos. Observe the constancy of the laws of the universe and think about how much the human race still needs to learn...
BON VOYAGE!
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1 meter Distance to a bunch of leaves, in the garden
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10 meters Start our trip upwards .... We could see the foliage.
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100 meters At this distance we can see the limits of the forest and the edifications
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1 km We will pass from meters to kilometers.. Now it is possible to jump with a parachute ...
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10 km The city could be observed but we really can not see the houses
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100 km At this height, the state of Flórida - USA, can be seen..
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1.000 km Typical sight from a satellite
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10.000 km The north hemisphere of Earth, and part of South America
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100.000 km The Earth starts looking small...
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1 million km The Earth and the Moon’s órbit in white....
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10 Million km
Part of the Earth’s Orbit in blue
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100 million km
Órbits of: Venus and Earth...
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1 billion km Órbits of: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Júpiter.
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10 billion km At this height of our trip, we could observe the Solar System and the orbits of the planets
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100 Billion km The Solar System starts looking small...
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1 trillion km The Sun now is a small star in the middle of thousands of stars...
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1 light-year At one light-year the little Sun star is very small
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10 light-year Here we will see nothing in the infinity....
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100 light-years “Nothing” Only stars and Nebula...
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1,000 light-years At this distance we started travelling the Via-Láctea (Milky Way), our galaxy.
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10,000 light-years We continued our travel inside the Via-Láctea.
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100,000 light-years We started reaching the periphery of the Via-Láctea
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1 millión light-years At this tremendous distance we could see all the Via-Láctea & other galaxies too...
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From this distance, all the galaxies look small with inmense empty spaces in between. The same laws are ruling in all bodies of the Universe. We could continue traveling upwards with our imagination, but now we will return home quickly
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Questions that come to our minds ... Who are we? Where are we going?
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Or... What do we represent in the Universe?
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In this trip “upwards” we went to the power of 23 of 10
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Now we are going to dig inside of the matter in an inverse trip...
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We arrived at our starting point. We could reach it with our arms...
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10 Centímeters Getting closer at 10 cm ...We can delineate the leaves.
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1 Centímeter At this distance it is possible to observe the structure of the leaf.
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1 Millímeter
The cellular structures start showing...
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100 microns The cells can be defined. You could see the union between them.
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10 microns Start our trip inside the cell...
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1 micron
The nucleus of the cell is visible.
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1.000 Angstroms Again we changed the messuring unit to adapt to the minuscule size. You could see the chromosomes.
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100 Angstroms In this micro universe the DNA chain is visible.
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10 Angstroms ...the chromosomes blocks can be studied.
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1 Angstrom It appears like clouds of electrons... These are carbon átoms that formed our world. You could notice the resemblance of the microcosmos with the macrocosmos...
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10 picómeters In this miniature world we could observe the electrons orbiting the atoms.
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1 Picómeter
An inmense empty space between the nucleous and the electron orbits...
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100 Fentómeters At this incredible and minuscule size we could observe the nuceous of the atom.
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10 Fentómeters Now we could observe the nucleous of the carbon atom
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1 Fentómeter Here we are in the field of the scientific imagination, face to face with a proton.
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100 Atómeters Examine the ‘quark’ partícules There is nowhere more to go... At the limits of current scientific knowledge . This is the limit of matter...
And now ...Are you the center of the universe? Are you the special creature of the Creation? What is behind those limits? Are there any limits? Note that going “downwards” we could only go to the power of minus 16ªof 10 and reached the (known?) limits of matter... But upwards we went to the power of 23ª of 10 and stopped... But really we could have continued our trip with out limits to our imagination!!!! ... then? ...who says that we are alone in the universe?
Subhan Allah
“ ُهوَ الّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُم مّا فِي الَرْضِ جَمِيع ًا ٍسوّا ُهنّ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَات َ َثُمّ اسْ َتوَى إِلَى السّمَاءِ ف ”ٌوَ ُهوَ بِ ُكلّ شَيْ ٍء عَلِيم 29Surah Al-Baqara الية،سورة البقرة It is He Who created for you all that is in the earth. Then turned He to the heaven, and fashioned it as seven heavens. And He is the knower of all things.
“الّ الّذِي رَفَعَ السّمَاوَاتِ بِغَيْ ِر عَمَدٍ تَ َروْ َنهَا ثُ ّم ّس وَالْقَمَرَ ُكل َ ْسخّرَ الشّم َ اسْ َتوَى عَلَى الْعَرْشِ َو ِصلُ اليَات ّ َجلٍ مّسَمّى يُدَبّرُ الَمْرَ يُف َ ََِيجْرِي ل “َلَعَلّكُم بِلِقَاءِ رَبّكُمْ تُوقِنُون 2Surah Ar-Ra’ad الية،سورة الرعد
Allah is He Who raised up the heavens without any pillars that ye can see , then mounted the Throne, and He has subjected the sun and the moon (to his Law) , each runneth unto an appointed term; He ordereth the course; He detaileth the revelations, that ye may believe with certainty in the meeting with your Lord.
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